| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Testosterone dreams/ John Hoberman. |
| Reminder of title: |
rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping / |
| Author: |
Hoberman, John M. |
| Published: |
Berkeley :University of California Press, : c2005., |
| Description: |
381 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Testosterone dreams : pharmacology and our human future -- Hormone therapy and the new medical paradigm -- Enhancements :where are the limits? -- Testosterone as therapy and myth -- "Psychic steroids" : Prozac as a performance-enhancing drug -- Back to the future : the sex hormone market from organotherapy to "andro" -- The aphrodisiac that failed : why testosterone did not become a mass sex therapy -- What they did to women : the origins of sex therapy -- Sex before Kinsey : what doctors and patients did not know -- Hormones and the state : sex and marital stability -- Patriarchal sex therapy : curing "frigidity" with hormones -- Reorienting male desire : curing homosexuals with sex hormones -- Aphrodisia for the masses? -- The secret life of testosterone therapy -- The mainstreaming of testosterone -- Celebrating testosterone -- Hormone therapy and the discovery of sexual deficiency -- Preserving the feminine essence : estrogen and menopause -- Does the male menopause exist? -- "Outlaw" biomedical innovations : hormone therapy and beyond -- Hormone therapy and cosmetic procedures : the new medical ethos -- Offshore entrepreneurial medicine : from embryos to cloning -- Medical populism and outlaw medicine : fertility techniques and medical marijuana -- Hormone therapists and hormone evangelists -- Hormone therapy for athletes : doping as social transgression -- Doping before steroids : clean amateurs and doped professionals -- The entrepreneurial physician -- Medical ethics -- The doctor-athlete relationship -- The patient as athlete, the athlete as patient -- "Let them take drugs" : public responses to doping -- A war against drugs? : the politics of hormone doping in sport -- International doping control before reform -- Sportive nationalism and doping -- International doping control after reform -- A war on drugs? Athletes and the doping of everyday life -- Athletic doping and the human future -- Epilogue, testosterone as a way of life. |
| Subject: |
Aphrodisiacs. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=125424An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417573961 (electronic bk.) |